The arid Atacama Desert in Northern Chile is one of the driest places on Earth, with some areas receiving just 0.5 millimeters of rain per year. That extremely dry weather has made the Atacama a prime ...

Chile’s Codelco and SQM completed a landmark deal aimed at boosting lithium extraction from the country’s Atacama Desert, giving the government control of one of the world’s richest reserves of the ...

A satellite photo from July shows intricate snowy stripes painted across the Atacama Desert in Chile. The icy weather temporarily put the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) ...

Police are investigating the discovery of a body found in a desert area of north Phoenix earlier this month, authorities said. Officers were called about 1 p.m. Dec. 16 to the area of 64th Street and ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

(NewsNation) — Earlier this year, more than 300 sets of human ashes were found quietly dumped in the Mojave Desert, unmarked and unclaimed. Months later, the cremated remains lay in the care of a ...

In the vast and lonely Arizona desert about 50 miles south of Las Vegas, tourists who took a wrong turn stumbled across a woman's naked and bloodied body on Dec. 12, 1989. Two days later and nearly ...

From volcanic landscapes to world-class observatories, a journey through the Canary Islands reveals a night sky unlike ...

A man who was reported missing in the mountains days ago was found injured on a trail south of Palm Desert on Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 30, and was hospitalized after being rescued by a sheriff's ...

New Scientist writers and contributors have chosen their top science-y books, films, TV shows, music, video games and board ...